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Article entitled 'A summer night's dream', published in three parts in the ‘United service magazine’, 1890, bound for Lieutenant Douglas Haig of the 7th Hussars (afterwards Field-Marshal Earl Haig) whose signature dated Secunderabad, 1890 is inside the front cover, and whose book-plate (when Earl Haig) is pasted to the flyleaf.
The article was published in ‘United Service magazine’, June, July and August, 1890, pages 205-229, 357-376 and 385-402.
Article entitled 'Early Scottish history and its exponents' by Alexander Henry Rhind.
The article was originally contained in the ‘Retrospective Review’, volume i (1853), pages 273-291. It has been separately re-bound, with interleaves, and there are extensive alterations in the author's autograph on most of the printed pages and the interleaves.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Copies, 18th century, of records of Parliament and of the Privy Council.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Charles Roberts and the Scottish Historical Library.
Drawings of masons' marks, made or collected by Charles S S Johnston, architect, with letters, notes, and excerpts on the subject; the whole arranged by Professor W B Stevenson..
Extracts, 17th century, by Lord Fountainhall, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary, 1584-1655.
Extracts, 17th century, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
Extracts, 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1626-1665.
Extracts, 18th century, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
Extracts, 18th century, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary, 1536-1728.
Extracts, 18th century, of criminal decisions, 1661-1674, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
Extracts, 18th century, of criminal decisions, 1716-1740, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
Extracts, early 18th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1697-1700.
Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1689.
Extracts, late 17th century, of acts of Sederunt, 1552-1677, of the Lords of Council of the Court of Session.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes.
'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.
The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
Manuscript of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.
With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.